More perils in preaching: an open thread

Last Monday we asked how preachers around the church had handled the difficult Gospel passage on hating your mother and your father. (Here’s an excellent sermon by the Rev. Bruce Coggin that not only focuses on that difficult passage, but discusses strategies for doing so.) This week I’d like to ask a broader question: what passages–particularly Gospel passages–do you just hate to preach on? Why? And what do you do about it?